Stationary and periodically driven barrier discharges
can form a variety of interesting patterns, see the
Münster group
(go to research, and then further to plasma physics).
Comparable instabilities are observed, e.g., at the
Philips Light Generation group.
- Transition from Townsend to glow discharge:
subcritical, mixed or supercritical characteristics,
D.D. Sijacic and U. Ebert, Phys. Rev. E 66, 066410 (2002) [12 pages],
paper.
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Period doubling in glow discharges:
local versus global differential conductivity,
D.D. Sijacic, U. Ebert and I. Rafatov,
Phys. Rev. E 70, 056220 (2004) [6 pages],
paper.
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Dependence of the transition from Townsend to glow discharge
on secondary emission,
Yu.P. Raizer, U. Ebert, D.D. Sijacic,
Phys. Rev. E 70, 017401 (2004) [3 pages],
paper.
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Oscillations in DC driven "barrier" discharges: numerical solutions,
stability analysis and phase diagram,
D.D. Sijacic, U. Ebert, I. Rafatov,
Phys. Rev. E 71, 066402 (2005) [12 pages],
paper.
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Ph. D. thesis
of Danijela Sijacic:
Spatio-temporal pattern formation in a semiconductor-gas-discharge
system,
defended on Dec. 2, 2004, and published by
TU Eindhoven.
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